“My original 1969 Custom SG came in a brown, and I think it's just the perfect update to have it come in this cherry red. Just seeing that guitar reimagined and brand new was a big treat.

Some other things that we collaborated on were just warning the three pickups. You're able to get so many total variations. Over time with my 69 Custom there's - you know, I talk to people at guitar shops about what to do to about that middle pickup - how to get that to function practically… Something that we thought of is to fade in the middle pickup by use of turning the toggle switch. So it's more than just a mere toggle switch. It's also an actual knob. So if you like to tweak, this is the guitar for you.

Another thing that we collaborated on was getting the lead pickup and the rhythm pickup to split. Right now I'm playing on an overdriven amp, and sometimes if you have your full on humbucker it can be a little bit too much guitar. Sometimes you want that more creamy sound sometimes wanna pull back to have a little bit less, so the amp is not so pushed. I like to think about these controls almost like a faucet, where you have like a little bit of water, a little bit of coolness. But you can just turn on then…

While playing on the Fallon show, every guitar player that I'm a fan of I try to have them sign the back of my headstock, and so with a guitar like this I thought it was a good opportunity to have a little signature of my own on the back of the headstock. I want whoever's playing it to really feel like it's theirs too, so that's why the signature is kinda small. But it's a signature guitar so why not put your signature on it?

I feel so incredibly proud that this is it, I am huge fan of Gibson guitars. But if I walked into a guitar shop and saw this there, I’d have a very difficult time walking out of the store all without it.”

In this Instagram pic, "Captain" Kirk Douglass explains:
"To answer your question @fenerman, this is Bernadette. She suffered many torchings during the making of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCT9I1fFo7Q. My main LP to this day."

The video he's referring to is a Heineken commercial he did, where he plays a fast solo, then throws the guitar to the ground and sets it on fire. He then puts out the fire with a Heineken beer.

At one point he loaned it to Prince so he could play it on the Late Night show, and at the end of the song "Bambi" Prince threw the guitar on the ground and cracked the headstock. According to an interview with Douglas, Prince apologized but refused to sign the guitar for Douglas. Prince replied, "No, I haven't signed anything since the 70s."

Kirk Douglas recalls that he bought the guitar around 2004, at 30th Street Guitars in New York.

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Premier Guitar on location at NBC Studio 6B, GE Building,
in NYC, catching up with Late Night with Jimmy Fallon's the Roots' guitarist, "Captain" Kirk Douglas.
Shown at 5:00 in this video is Douglas's Gibson Byrdland. He uses flatwound strings with it.

"Captain" Kirk Douglas uses a Gibson Custom Shop 356 w/ Bigsby Tremolo on The Tonight Show Staring Jimmy Fallon. It is shown [@ 3:57] in the video where he says "It's a slightly smaller body than the 355. So by using a smaller body it makes me look like a bigger human."

Around 3:19 in this video, "Captain" Kirk Douglas says that he uses the Mesa ... more

Around 3:19 in this video, "Captain" Kirk Douglas says that he uses the Mesa Boogie Stiletto guitar amp out on stage on the Jimmy Fallon show, "an EL34 based amp."

He describes it as Mesa Boogie's first foray into the British sounding amplifier. "It projects well, it's got a great natural distortion sound, it's like a Swiss army knife of amplifiers... very intuitive, easy to operate, and it looks pretty badass too."

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Premier Guitar on location at NBC Studio 6B, GE Building,
in NYC, catching up with Late Night with Jimmy Fallon's the Roots' guitarist, "Captain" Kirk Douglas.
Here at 2:34 he explains that the Line 6 DL4 Delay Guitar Effects Pedal is part of his setup on the show.

"Captain" Kirk Douglas uses a Dunlop Jimi Hendrix JH1 Wah on his live pedalbo... more

"Captain" Kirk Douglas uses a Dunlop Jimi Hendrix JH1 Wah on his live pedalboard rig for The Tonight Show Staring Jimmy Fallon. It is shown [@ 2:30] in the video. When asked why he uses it, Kirk replied, "It's got a nice sweep and it has Jimi's signature on it."

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